English noun: Carboniferous period | |||
1. | Carboniferous period (time) from 345 million to 280 million years ago | ||
Synonyms | Carboniferous | ||
Instance hypernym | geological period, period | ||
Part holonym | Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period, Missippian period, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Pennsylvanian period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period | ||
Part meronym | Paleozoic, Paleozoic era | ||